It’s been more than 240 days since Jon Nabbs set off from St. John’s, N.L., to run across Canada. As he enters the final stretch in Calgary, he inches closer to his $60,000 fundraising goal for childhood cancer charities.
The Kiwi runner from Cambridge, New Zealand, set off in May with the intent of supporting Childhood Cancer Canada and the Child Cancer Foundation in his home country.
Nabbs lost both of his parents to cancer but was inspired by Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope and decided to take on the challenge himself.
“The fact that this run is aligned to a cause that means so much to me is a huge driver on days when it really hurts and maybe you don’t feel like carrying on so much,” he said.
“But then you remember the awful feeling with my folks when we heard the news that there were …